How’ve you been? Over the last few months I’ve been working on some housekeeping here in this space. Much of it (faster page load times through the magic of better caching and image management) you’ll barely notice, but will hopefully make your experience when you visit smoother and better. I have a new and improved …
When Lauren Stein contacted me and asked if I wanted a copy of her new book, Fresh Made Simple, I immediately said yes. I knew it featured simple recipes made from real food, which is how I cook on an average day, but I didn’t know the form that these recipes would take. It’s a …
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper…” Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited It’s been awhile since I’ve compiled a list of favorites. This summer has been extra hot and extra humid, and that part of it I won’t miss. But the …
It took me years to get around to making granola bars (or energy bars or fruit and nut bars or whatever you’d like to call them). Until finally, I made these homemade Kind bars. You see, I have this granola that I love and that I made regularly for years. But for reasons I can’t quite …
“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.” –L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars Reading: Rebecca Onion digs …
“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose Reading: Helen …